James by Percival Everett
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I didn’t give this a fair chance at first for several reasons: don’t mess with a classic; an accusation against all white people, etc. But I set those biases aside because my book club chose it and I had to read it. I soon realized it had little to do with Huckleberry Finn and was just an imagined story of a black slave escaping pre-Civil War Missouri on a raft with a white boy (at first) but then departing from Twain’s narrative. It’s implausible, but probably not much more so than Twain’s story. It’s an easy enough read, so I just flowed with the story and enjoyed it.